ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,645, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Semiconductor packages with thermal lid and methods of forming the same" was invented by Po-Chen Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Ming-Chih Yew (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shu-Shen Yeh (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Po-Yao Lin (Zhudong Township, Taiwan) and Shin-Puu Jeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Semiconductor three-dimensional integrated circuit packages and methods of forming the same are disclosed herein. A method includes bonding a semiconductor chip package to a substrate and depositing a thermal interface material on the semiconductor...